[MyAppleMenu] May 24, 2013

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**** Judge's Remarks Could Mean Apple Setback In Price-Fixing Case ****
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2419455,00.asp>
Stephanie Mlot, PC Magazine



**** Missing The Xserve? Sonnet Has A Rack-mounted Answer ****
<http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57585909-263/missing-the-xserve-sonnet-has-a-rack-mounted-answer/>
Topher Kessler, CNET


> This device is essentially a rack tray for Apple's Mac Mini, but in addition to a built-in power supply and pass-through connections for the Mac's built-in inputs, it offers PCI Express expansion through a Thunderbolt connection to the Mac Mini.



**** Help Protect Yourself From Signed Malware In OS X ****
<http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57585668-263/help-protect-yourself-from-signed-malware-in-os-x/>
Topher Kessler, CNET


> With the discovery of malware signed with a valid Apple ID, here are some steps you can take to help prevent the remote chance of any such programs infecting your computer.



**** Laurene Powell Jobs And Anonymous Giving In Silicon Valley ****
<http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/laurene-powell-jobs-and-anonymous-giving-in-silicon-valley/?smid=tw-share>
Claire Cain Miller, New York Times



**** New Apple Ad Kicks Competitors Right In The Music ****
<http://www.imore.com/new-apple-ad-kicks-competitors-right-music>
Rene Ritchie, iMore


> It's not caricatures feuding at a wedding, or acting stupidly at a pool party, or rushing to do something or be somewhere they won't even remember a week later. It's people living their lives, and those lives made better in small, constant ways by Apple.



**** My Questions For Tim Cook ****
<http://www.asymco.com/2013/05/24/my-questions-for-tim-cook/>
Horace Dediu, Asymco


> Next week at AllThingsD’s D11 conference in LA, Apple CEO Tim Cook will be interviewed by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. Here are some questions I’m hoping they will ask.



**** Bugs & Fixes: iTunes 11.0.3 Update Improves App Updating ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2039693/bugs-and-fixes-itunes-11-0-3-update-improves-app-updating.html#tk.rss_all>
Ted Landau, Macworld



**** Mac Gems: Eye-Friendly Is A Handy Resolution Switcher For Retina MacBooks ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2038950/mac-gems-eye-friendly-is-a-handy-resolution-switcher-for-retina-macbooks.html#tk.rss_all>
Roman Loyola, Macworld


> Eye-Friendly's keyboard shortcuts and multiple-display support make it a nice resolution switcher for the Retina MacBook.



**** 'Running With Friends' Review - Zynga's Late To The Party, But Their Latest Social Game Is At Least Satisfying ****
<http://toucharcade.com/2013/05/24/running-with-friends-review/>
James Isabel, Touch Arcade



**** Acorn 4 Review: Affordable Image Editor Gains Extra Power ****
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac-creative/reviews/?reviewid=3448964&olo=rss>
Duncan Evans, Macworld UK


> With the latest version, developer Flying Meat has pulled out all the stops, adding non-destructive filter effects and speeding the app up considerably. There’s also been a re-jigging of the layer and brush controls so things work a little differently from the previous version.



**** Why iPhone Repair Costs Have Soared ****
<http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-iphone-repair-costs-have-soared-2013-05-22?mod=e2tw>
Quentin Fottrell, MarketWatch


> “Apple controls everything from the manufacturing to the gear for the iPhone 5,” says Jeff Haynes, editor at deal site TechBargains.com. As the iPhone 5 is larger than the 4, the cost for replacement parts rises, he says. “Apple is trying to get people to sign up for Apple Care for $99 and to rely on their services at the Apple store,” he says, “If you don’t, that cracked screen could cost you at least $230.”



**** Evernote Finally Becomes A Proper To-do App With New Reminders Feature ****
<http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/23/4359798/evernote-proper-to-do-app-with-reminders-feature>
Dan Seifert, The Verge


> The new feature combines in-app and email-based reminders, quick note-based to-do lists, and the ability to pin notes to the top of your list so that your to-dos are readily visible.



**** Apple Confirms June 10 For WWDC Keynote ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/23/apple-confirms-june-10-for-wwdc-keynote/>
Steven Sande, TUAW



**** Turn Your Photos Into A Comic Book With Halftone 2 ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2013/05/23/turn-your-photos-into-a-comic-book-with-halftone-2/>
Mel Martin, TUAW



**** Researchers Find More Versions Of Digitally Signed Mac OS X Spyware ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2039640/researchers-find-more-versions-of-digitally-signed-mac-os-x-spyware.html#tk.rss_all>
Lucian Constantin, IDG News Service


> Security researchers have identified multiple samples of the recently discovered “KitM” spyware for Mac OS X, including one dating back to December 2012 and targeting German-speaking users.



**** TextExpander Touch 2.0 Gains Features From Mac Version ****
<http://tidbits.com/article/13785?rss>
Michael E. Cohen, TidBITS



**** How To Relocate A Dropbox Subfolder To Another Disk ****
<http://tidbits.com/article/13791?rss>
Jeff Carlson, TidBITS


> The answer to making it work lies outside Dropbox’s options. Specifically, I needed Mac OS X to trick Dropbox into thinking it was still copying files to its Camera Uploads folder, even if the folder is located on another disk.






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**** Are Apostrophes Necessary? ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/05/apostrophes_and_when_to_use_them_punctuation_necessary_at_all_not_really.html>
Matthew J.X. Malady, Slate


> One hundred and eighteen miles north of London, in the town of Boston, England, there lives a retired newspaperman named John Richards who is experiencing an unusually rotten spring. Richards is the founder and chairman of something called the Apostrophe Protection Society. His world, at least as related to the tiny mark that denotes possessives and the omission of letters from certain words, appears to be crashing down around him.



**** Everything In This City Must ****
<http://www.themorningnews.org/article/everything-in-this-city-must?src=longreads>
Alexander Chee, The Morning News


> What will you miss about Germany and Leipzig, he asks.

> It is a sweet sort of question, oddly aspirational—<i>You will miss us, yes?</i> Here I am at the halfway mark. The winter has been dark, the snow, seemingly endless. I have just delivered a novel I’ve been working on for almost a decade, the day before. I almost don’t know how to miss anything. To answer is to answer with a fiction.

> The beer and the bread, I say, with a bit of a laugh. Also the quiet.

> The months pass and then I am back in the U.S., and I have real answers. But we should still begin with the beer.



**** The Shake Shack Explosion: How Danny Meyer’s Burger Chain Gets Bigger By Appearing Smaller ****
<http://www.grubstreet.com/2013/05/shake-shack-expansion-analysis.html?>
Clint Rainey, Grub Street


> Explosive worldwide growth raises questions in the minds of customers about a business's identity, consistency, and brand dilution — unfamiliar territory for Meyer, a Manhattan luxury restaurateur who "has created new restaurants as though they were each his first and only" and who preaches a mantra of “slow down.” That's at least in part why Meyer and his team make a point to refer to Shake Shack as the "anti-chain" chain.